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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

GCRC Clean Out.

My long steering turnbuckles arrived at GCRC and were quickly installed along with a short lipo mount that had come from Japan to the USA and back to Australia. Hard to get. Yes!

Ready for action...

But...

When I got on track at GCRC this afternoon, I couldn't get a slide on. The track had been covered by tyre residue from rubber or soft abs tyres. As my car picked up the plastic marbles onto my own car tyres, I'd get about 2 corners in before I had to clean them again. If I used the brake the car would immediately spin.

After about an hour of running full throttle without having to use brakes and effectively cleaning the track and some other guys arriving and helping the clean out.

In the last hour we started to get back to a decently slow speed where the cars would slide for any real distance with consistency.

These shots were only really possible at the end of the evening.

In my own personal opinion, GCRC Raceway has one of the best surfaces out there but it can be easily gummed up by using soft ABS. It is extremely low cost, so pick up a set of HDPE when you come and they will last a long long long long time for many many many many visits to come.

With the new track area being cleared also and the concrete gets polished a bit more, there will soon be more choices for awesome sliding.

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My blogs are a result of my history of car ownership. Starting with Isuzu Gemini, followed by early Celica, Datsun and then Mazda Rotaries and Other Japanese performance Turbo and NA cars. The FD rx7 is a passion but driving is more of a passion.
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